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About adrianstenton

Adrian Stenton is a PhD candidate at Leiden University Centre for Linguistics and is currently investigating number concord in the species noun phrase. Adrian is part of the project Bridging the Unbridgeable: linguists, prescriptivists and the general public, which is supervised by Prof Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade.

A missing word?

Posted on June 30, 2017 by adrianstenton

I was copy-editing a paper for a language journal today, and came across this: “… children may or may not identify phonemes better audiovisually than auditory only.” The prescriptivist in me baulked at the combination of adverb and adjective, and … Continue reading →

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Only 35?

Posted on June 6, 2017 by adrianstenton

Here’s a UK Guradina newspaper fluff piece for Harold Evans’ new book on writing dos and donts. He seems very confident!

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Bryan Garner review

Posted on May 21, 2017 by adrianstenton

An interesting review of Bryan Garner’s (2016) Modern English Usage has just been posted HERE on Linguist List.

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Metalanguage usage in the UK primary school classroom

Posted on May 10, 2017 by adrianstenton

Here’s an article from the UK Guardian newspaper on the use of grammar metalanguage in UK primary school tests!

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Yet another survey

Posted on February 14, 2017 by adrianstenton

For English Today readers, and indeed anybody else who may have missed it last time, here is my trial survey, on number concord in the species noun phrase, which I have posted on Qualtrics. You will find the survey HERE. … Continue reading →

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What kind/sort/type of word are these? Number concord across the species noun phrase in International Academic English

Posted on December 6, 2016 by adrianstenton

I’m Adrian Stenton, and I’m a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, where I’m investigating number concord across the species noun phrase, as part of the project Bridging the Unbridgeable: a project on English usage guides, which … Continue reading →

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